Eberhard von Mackensen

Eberhard von Mackensen (24 September 1889-19 May 1969) was a Colonel-General of Nazi Germany who was the son of August von Mackensen. He fought in World War I and World War II.

Biography
Eberhard von Mackensen was born on 24 September 1889 in Bromberg in the Province of Posen, German Empire (present-day Poland). In 1908 he joined the Reichswehr and served in World War I and in the 1919 joined the Freikorps in the Russian Civil War in the Baltics. In 1938 he became a Major-General of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany shortly before the start of World War II. At the start of the war, he was made the Chief-of-Staff of the Gemran 14th Army in Poland and later fought with the German 12th Army in the Battle of France in 1940. Mackensen took over the German 1st Panzer Army in March 1943 and fought in the Third Battle of Kharkov on the Eastern Front against the Soviet Union. Later that year he was promoted to Colonel-General and fought in Italy and ordered the execution of ten Italians for every German soldier killed by partisans, leading to many massacres. At the war's end, he was tried for war crimes and held in prison until 1952. He died in Neumunster, Schleswig-Holstein, on 19 May 1969.